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The exhibit explores the profound tension between the painter’s European, deeply classical training and his love of New York’s bold, experimental freedom.
His witty send ups both enshrine and subvert images from our collective zeitgeist with the recycled debris of consumer culture.
Dine expresses his fascination with the tensions between abstraction, two-dimensional representation, and the presence of things.
What we have, it seems, are enormous, exploded paintings.
If this show proves anything, it is that New York and the French capital are artistic and cultural half siblings.
This living tradition is being carried on by Professor Stephane Rene, who is currently painting a complete iconostasis and murals for the Coptic Orthodox Church of Saint Mark.
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